Criticize me, please

Who am i to this world

I barely figure out

Ah that’s a great puzzle

They portray me with names

Sometimes derogate out of context

How long will they persuade everyone

Even I’m confused

who am i actually to this world

Would you decipher

What i think

What i say

What i do

Do my skin colour speak

Or the way i practice

my religion and culture

Describe me?

Or you’ll keep fighting

Till i’ll be six feet under

For not fitting in your

definition of perfection

Am i obligated to your coercion

Did i give you any permission

To decide who am i or

Allow you to give

your opinions on my opinion

Neither will i abuse you

For your sick mentality

Nor demonstrate my self righteousness

For I’ve cogent believe in my words and self

You couldn’t shatter me

I’ve rise like a pheonix from cinder

I’m no weak flower

I’ve been get through every brutal storm

While bejeweled in my bruises,

How well you know me?

Have you ever seen my scars

Have you seen me growing up

Are you there while I’m dealing with traumas

Are you there while I fall apart twice a day

Did you swept away my falling tears or

felt my pain

You’ll never knew me the way i do

I’ve been raised to make a difference

Not for playing dirty games

If you think you’re the pious men

Don’t count me upon your list of preys

For dragging the mask from masquerader

disguise as an angel

Will you sentence me as a sinner

Or to death?

If all these fake allegations

Gives you a temporary rush of elation

Then be happy in all these delusions

But remember,

i fear no human power

For i don’t need armies

to fight my own battles.

[Is my value based only on your perception?

Or your opinion of me

Not my responsibility.]

©VishalDutia

R. Stevens

“Don’t get yourself arrested and make your day worse! If you need to vent, just smash something that’s already broken! You can’t get in trouble for wrecking the unsalvageable!”

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H. L. Mencken

“The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.”

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book…”

Oprah Winfrey

“I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.”

Jackson Pollock

“The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.”

Friedrich von Schiller

“Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.”

Michael Patrick King

“I don’t wear a watch. How do I know my time? I find that someone will always tell me.”

Anna Freud

“I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.”

Nikolai Gogol

“It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.”

Henry Ford

“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”

Aimee Mullins

“Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”

Voltaire

“Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do.”

Aristotle

“Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way… you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.”

Frank Wilczek

“If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.”

Edward Chapin

“Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.”

Sir Robert Hutchinson

“Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.”

Lisa Williams

“I’m the world’s least happy atheist. I miss having religious faith, but trying to have it seems like trying to be in love with someone that you’re not in love with.”

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

“It’s takin’ whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It’s all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin’.”

John Lancaster Spalding

“Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life’s burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.”

Barack Obama

“We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we’re doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than vising to the challenges of the age.”

Oliver Goldsmith

“Don’t let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.”

Rosalynn Carter

“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go but where they ought to be.”

Jawaharlal Nehru

“The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.”

Abraham Lincoln

“Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.”

Confucius

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”

Bernard M. Baruch

“Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.”

Sheila Graham

“You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.”

W. Somerset Maugham

“When things are at their worst I find something always happens.”

Ward Jenkins

“Photographers do this for a living, every single day — they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It’s all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.”

Benjamin Haydon

“Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.”

Henrik Ibsen

“The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.”

Georg W. Hegel

“Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable.”

Cato the Elder

“Grasp the subject, the words will follow.”

John Adams

“You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.”

Pablo Picasso

“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape…”

Sir William Osler

“Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.”

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There is really no such thing as conditional love and unconditional love – there are conditions, and there is love.

Haiku #09

whatever you need to do tomorrow, do it now.

The time is lost in moments and you will not recognise it.

If the moment is gone, the work will remain undone forever.